Build a business that succeeds not just financially—but meaningfully—while shaping the future of entrepreneurship with Arun Gupta!
May 15th, 2026 | 11:00 AM PT
What if success in entrepreneurship wasn’t measured only by valuation or exit—but by the impact you create along the way? Today’s founders are increasingly navigating a new reality where building a meaningful company means aligning ambition with purpose, and growth with contribution.
The Nasdaq Center is honored to be joined by Arun Gupta— venture capitalist, Stanford University lecturer, CEO of the NobleReach Foundation, and co-author of the upcoming book The Mission Generation: Rewrite Success, Reclaim Your Purpose, Rebuild Our Future. We'll explore how entrepreneurs can redefine success by aligning their skills, values, and ventures with problems larger than themselves—creating companies that generate both economic and societal value. Drawing from real-world stories across sectors, they’ll share frameworks founders can use to build businesses that scale impact while sustaining long-term growth.
Key Takeaways:
- Discover Compass Capital—six forms of capital that together form a founder’s true competitive advantage.
- Learn about the Four Forms of Resistance and practical strategies for navigating obstacles that often block purpose-driven ventures.
- Explore the Mission Flywheel, a model for transforming values into strategic action and long-term impact.
Meet our special guest
Arun Gupta
Arun Gupta is CEO of the NobleReach Foundation, a venture capitalist, lecturer at Stanford University, and adjunct entrepreneurship professor at Georgetown University, and a bestselling author of Venture Meets Mission and The Mission Generation. Arun is active in the emerging technology, entrepreneurship, public policy, and venture finance communities. As a partner at Columbia Capital, Arun's investment career spanned eighteen years including initiating the firm's Cybersecurity and Government technology investments with a focus on national security, AI, and SaaS/cloud infrastructure sectors. He was awarded the Entrepreneurial Faculty Teaching Excellence Award and the Peter W. Gonzalez Jr. Award at Georgetown University. Arun earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School ('95); an M.S. degree in engineering economic systems and B.S. degree with distinction in electrical engineering from Stanford University ('91). Arun has lived in the Washington, D.C. area for over 40 years and has been happily married for 27+ years to Dr. Anjali Mehta Gupta and has three wonderful children.
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